China’s Catholic community reeled recently as news spread that Beijing’s seminarians had boycotted their graduation ceremony, scheduled for late June. The decision was made after the seminarians discovered that the illegitimate – and excommunicated – […]
The family of prominent Catholic author Stratford Caldecott has announced that he died yesterday of pancreatic cancer, at the age of 60. From the UK Catholic Herald: He was the G K Chesterton Research Fellow […]
Strange how certain extremely famous creators are not really famous after all. For proof of this sub-Chestertonian paradox, consult Franz Joseph Haydn, who seems in many respects the musical counterpart to Mark Twain’s definition of […]
At the end of June I was asked to speak in Washington, DC at a Coptic Solidarity conference. I receive similar invitations quite often these days, because while I am a dreadfully inadequate spokesman for […]
The Diocese of Santa Rosa announced yesterday that it has paid “a significant settlement” to a victim of the deceased Fr. Ted Oswald, who died in 2010. A statement released by the Communications Office of […]
The great Southern writer and Catholic Flannery O’Connor once said that Catholics are called upon to suffer ever so much more from the Church than for her. These words came back to mind after the […]
When conservative Christian leaders in America woke up the morning after the Supreme Court ruled abortion to be a constitutional right with its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, they realized their opponent had engineered […]
Francis Cardinal George, in his most recent column in Catholic New World, reflects on the nature of religious freedom in the United States, and masterfully connects a number of important, related points in doing so: […]
“Catholic social teaching has explosive power for changing not just individuals, but whole societies. And it’s the saints who light the fuse,” writes Brandon Vogt, author of Saints and Social Justice (Our Sunday Visitor, 2014). […]
Rome. The second extraordinary exhibition of Verbum Domini at Braccio di Carlo Magno in the Vatican (the first one was held in 2012) concluded with a thanksgiving reception on the evening of Thursday, June 26th, […]
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